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...President of the U.S. tells his people that he is going to spend the next four years trying to reach an understanding, and that there are Soviet leaders who are anxious for that understanding (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), confusion and division will result, and these in turn will breed phenomena such as Garry Davis...
...unresolved in China's Chiang. He had been right so often, when those around him were wrong, that taking advice did not come easily to him. Three times-from Canton, from Sian, and from Chungking-he had fought his way out of hopeless situations. Such an experience might breed arrogance, and many believe that Chiang is arrogant, narrow, unimaginative-the victim of his own frozen will...
...still a first-class breed bull, still valued at $25,000, Swanky Dan was slowing up in the show ring. Last week, rather than risk his undefeated record, the Curtiss Candy Co., his owner, decided to retire him from exhibition, settled him on the Curtiss breeding farm at Gary...
...Malthusian creed is the conviction that people will multiply blindly (like fruit flies) as long as they get enough food. Biologists can put a few fruit flies in an air-conditioned bottle, give them the same amount of food each day, and predict pretty accurately how fast they will breed. The fly population grows until there are just enough flies to eat up the daily food. Only then does the colony stop growing...
Readers will spot a trace of the practiced world weariness, the wry disenchantment and resigned disillusionment with which New Yorker fiction is loaded. Editor Maxwell's storytelling is of the same breed, but it is a thoroughbred in its class...